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With the outbreak of Covid-19 and the suspension of our thrice-daily minyanim a group of us davened Shaḥarit together on Zoom. Although we could not recite Kaddish, Kedushah or Barekhu, the act of davening ‘together’ enhanced our tefillot and helped maintain a sense of friendship and community. For these precious gifts and for helping maintain a sense of normalcy during some of the worst days of the pandemic, Hashem ye-raḥem, I thank my co-daveners.Following Shaḥarit, we shared a short d’var Torah—usually on a segment of the Siddur—which often led to a more extended discussion. The divrei Torah you find here—organized around the daily cycle of prayer—reflect these discussions, although they are not a transcription, nor are they arranged in the order originally presented.We hope the divrei Torah will enhance your davening. For those who joined us during those days of dread we hope they serve as a reminder of the quality moments we shared. May the pandemic quickly fade into history and may all those who were infected have a refuah sheleimah, a quick and complete recovery. The destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE brought with it the end of a centralized mode of worship. For the Jewish people there was no longer a Temple with priests to serve as their proxy in the daily worship of Hashem. Gone was the glorious Temple and gone too were the daily sacrifices through which Jewish people throughout the world participated vicariously with their yearly half-shekel contribution.In the absence of a representative worship centered around the Temple, a different type of worship evolved, centered around individuals praying in communities of ten or more men. The Siddur text embodies our prayers and continues to evolve. Jews throughout the world use it to express their acceptance of Hashem as their God, and to give voice to their pain and thanksgiving, their fear and their longing, their hope for better days to come.Two segments of our prayers are central to our daily worship. The first, our twice-daily-recited Kriat Shema and its berakhot, expresses our kabbalat ol malkhut Shamayim, our accepting the yoke of Heaven. The second, the thrice-daily Shemoneh Esreh, is patterned after the Korban Tamid, the daily sacrifices of the Temple. With the Shemoneh Esreh we praise Hashem and petition Him for our daily needs. Appended to these two components are various prayers and praises of God collected from Tanakh (mostly Psalms), as well as from other sources which were formulated by our great sages and poets throughout the past two millennia.The divrei Torah you find here address different parts of davening and are arranged to follow our cycle of prayer. For each, an introduction is provided, a question is raised, an answer is proposed, and a takeaway idea—whether moral, ethical or religious—is suggested.
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- Title: Thoughts on Our Daily Prayers: A Commentary on the Siddur
- Author : Heshey Zelcer, Shloimy Zelcer
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